FCC appeals cable broadband decisionNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentThe U.S. Supreme Court is expected to review a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that ruled cable modem services should be regulated as a telecommunications service.

China's mobile phone exports ring up huge profitsNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentManufacturers of mobile phones in China saw the value of their exports increase by 104.9 percent to $7.15 billion between January and July of this year, according to just published figures from the country's Ministry of Commerce.

InFocus sues 3M for patent infringementProduct News 8/31/2004 Post a commentInFocus Corp. (Wilsonville, Ore.) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 3M Company (Minneapolis) in the United States District Court in Oregon, claiming 3M is infringing on its front projector technology patent US 6,424,097 B1.

RF detector accurately detects RF signals up to 3GHzProduct News 8/31/2004 Post a commentLinear Technology introduces a high performance logarithmic type RF detector, the LT5534, that can accurately detect RF signals up to 3GHz. It is designed for cellular basestation receivers and transmitters, and other high performance transceivers.

WiMAX and the last mile potential for wireless broadbandProduct News 8/31/2004 Post a commentFujitsu gives its views on the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) standard. It is with the WiMAX standard that system vendors can create many different types of WiMAX-based products, including various configurations of base stations and customer premise equipment.

NI launches next-gen multi-function data-acq plug-insProduct News 8/31/2004 Post a commentOffering no less than 20 new products, all introduced in a family at the same time, National Instruments is rolling out what it bills as the next generation of multi-function DAQ products. Significantly, they use the company's newly designed NI-STC 2 system controller chip and a new NI-PGIA 2 monolithic amplifier chip.

Foundry Watch: ChipMOS enters limelightNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentAfter years' of obscurity in the chip packaging and test business, Taiwan's ChipMOS Technologies Bermuda Ltd. has finally moved into the limelight with plans on becoming the next $500 million player in the industry.

Chip-scale atomic clock is targeted at mobilesNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentResearchers at the US Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are claiming a tiny atomic clock they have demonstrated could form the basis of significantly more precise timekeeping than achievable now for mobile phones and other portable, battery-powered devices.

Epson first to sample mobile video interface bridge chipNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentSeiko Epson has started sampling the first bridge chip set for the serial Mobile Video Interface (MVI) specification it is trying to establish in conjunction with Renesas Technology as an open standard for the transfer of text and graphics displayed on mobile communications devices.

Renesas to open Vietnam chip design centerNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentJapan's Renesas Technology Corp. is set to open a design center for integrated circuits in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the company said Tuesday (Aug. 31), which it hopes to expand to 1000 employees shortly after the end of this decade.

Hitachi, Toshiba, Matsushita to form LCD joint ventureNews & Analysis 8/31/2004 Post a commentThree major Japanese companies, Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., have agreed to establish a billion-dollar joint venture company to manufacture and sell LCD panels for flat-panel TVs. Plans call for the joint venture to commence operations in January 2005.

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